The Member I assemblage also includes a shaft of pointed bone polished at the pointed end.

Use of the point is also known from Swartkrans, as a bone shaft with a polished point was discovered there in Member ( layer ) I, dated 1. 8 – 1. 5 mya.

The population also polished and engraved non-functional or not obviously functional pieces of bone or antler.

* Drinking horns are bovid horns removed from the bone core, cleaned and polished and used as drinking vessels.

Other historically correct details for women's hairdos included tiaras of starched lace and polished bone, hairpins with elaborate decorative heads, lace and silk bows, and snoods.

They also found the reverse side of the “ door ” to be finished and polished, which suggests that it wasn ’ t put there just to block the shaft, but rather for a more specific reason.

ceramics and polished stone tools appeared, found spread across Kazakhstan steppes, river valleys, and mountains.

Nodules of haematite with highly polished surfaces have been found as well ; the shiny surfaces suggest that the nodules were used to finish leather.

Flint implements, like those found in Siberia, have been found at Dui and Kusunai in great numbers, as well as polished stone hatchets, like European examples, primitive pottery with decorations like those of the Olonets, and stone weights for nets.

It was, however, a frustrating year for the polished professional, who had begun his career with a winner and found himself playing for the losingest team in modern baseball history ( with a record of 40-120 ).

A layer of peat formed between 1920 and 1680 BC and another between 1020 and 830 BC, indicating marshy conditions ; polished Neolithic axes found in those layers were blackened by exposure to the peat.

Deere found that cast-iron plows were not working very well, in the tough prairie soil of Illinois and remembered the polished needles.

But part of the problem was Berle himself: with competition crowding him more and more as the years went on, as more television performers and creators found their camera legs, and brought new or at least more polished ideas to the air, Berle tried refining his camera persona and evolving from the freewheeling, manic style he cultivated so successfully in the Texaco years.

He wrote an account of the mound and its tomb, describing what he saw as its " barbarous sculpture " and noting that animal bones, beads and pieces of glass had been found inside of it ( modern archaeologists have speculated that these latter two were in fact the polished pottery beads that have subsequently been found at the site and which were a common feature of Neolithic tombs ).

Among the Epistles to Distinguished Persons will be found some of Daniel's noblest stanzas and most polished verse.

Beriberi may be found in people whose diet consists mainly of polished white rice, which is very low in thiamine because the thiamin-bearing husk has been removed.

Eijkman surmised that polished rice lacked a dietary component found in unpolished rice, and that beriberi was caused by depriving the body of this component, which he called " the anti-beriberi factor ".

Individual stones, such as those forming desert pavement, are often found with grooved, etched, or polished surfaces where these same wind driven processes have slowly worn away the rock.

In spite of the claims of his practice he found time to produce a good many books, all written in the precise and polished style on which he used to pride himself.

The name has sometimes been used, incorrectly, to label other banded lapidary materials, such as banded calcite found in Mexico, Pakistan, and other places, and often carved, polished and sold.

Beneath the mounds and plazas were found a vast array of offerings and other buried objects, more than 50 separate caches by one count, including buried jade, polished mirrors made of iron-ores, and five large " Massive Offerings " of serpentine blocks.

The ether will be found to have taken up all the gold from the acid, and may be used for gilding iron or steel, for which purpose the metal is polished with fine emery and spirits of wine.

It is this last criterion that causes trouble in identification, as smooth stones found without context can ( possibly erroneously in some cases ) be dismissed as having been polished by water or wind.

The image shows the center of a polished slice of a petrified tree from the late Triassic period ( approximately 230 million years ago ) found in Arizona.

Much of the material which would have been found in the following chapters can be found, in a less polished form, in the Séminaire de géométrie algébrique ( known as SGA ).

The Late Woodland Montaine were less influenced by Hopewellian trade from Ohio, although similarly polished stone tools have been found among the Montaine sites in the Tygart Valley.

Two men murmured with their heads together at the end of the bar, while the sleek-headed bartender absently polished a glass.

The results of work on these and other topics were published in the EGA and in less polished form in the notes of the Séminaire de géométrie algébrique ( SGA ) that he directed at IHES.

" According to Dhanis ' medical officer, Captain Hinde, their town of Ngandu had " at least 2, 000 polished human skulls " as a " solid white pavement in front " of its gates, with human skulls crowning every post of the stockade.

In 1832 the first polished tombstone of Aberdeen granite to be erected in an English cemetery was installed at Kensal Green cemetery.

Work at Merrivale continued until the 1990s, for the last 20 years imported stone such as gabbro from Norway and Italian marble was dressed and polished.

* For specular surfaces, such as glass or polished metal, reflectivity will be nearly zero at all angles except at the appropriate reflected angle-that is, reflected radiation will follow a different path from incident radiation for all cases other than radiation normal to the surface.

However, the presence of old weapon and tool fragments ( specifically, polished axes cut through shale and remnants of cooking and fishing ) in the country has been interpreted as a possible indication of a large human presence during the Upper Paleolithic period ( 15, 000 to 10, 000 BC ), or at the minimum, the Neolithic period.

he aimed a stroke at Cressingham in his corslet, which was brightly polished.

Gloves and spurs give a polished and professional appearance, but are not required at this level.

For example, a polished spherical electrode 30 cm in diameter immersed in air at STP ( which has a breakdown voltage of about 30 kV / cm ) could be expected to develop a maximum voltage of about 450 kV.

It was during this period, at different times and places in the Greek world, that the use of dressed and polished stone replaced the wood in these early temples, but the forms and shapes of the old wooden styles were retained, just as if the wooden structures had turned to stone, thus the designation petrification for this process.

The elegance and polished style of his lyrics have been noted in Bacchylidean scholarship since at least Longinus ( De Sublimitate 33, 5 ).

The concave ( inner ) surface of the lens is then polished with some fine abrasive paste, oil, and a small polyester cotton ball turned at high speeds.

It can be highly polished and is used for vases, seals, and at one time for snuff boxes.

Buried deep within La Venta, lay opulent, labor-intensive " offerings " – 1000 tons of smooth serpentine blocks, large mosaic pavements, and at least 48 separate deposits of polished jade celts, pottery, figurines, and hematite mirrors.

This mirror was ground and polished into its parabolic shape at the Optical Fabrication and Engineering Facility of the College of Optical Sciences of the University of Arizona ( in Tucson, Arizona ).

The largest piece of polished Llanite in the world can be seen at the Badu House, Llano's historic inn.

A memorable incident concerning his massive alcohol consumption was an appearance on The Late Late Show where he recounted to host Gay Byrne how he had just polished off two bottles of fine wine in a restaurant and decided that he would then be going on the wagon: " And I looked at my watch and it was ... Well isn't that spooky!

But by the time the company got under way in 1920 – 1921, feature films were becoming more expensive and more polished, and running times had settled at around ninety minutes ( or eight reels ).

The tutti passages on “ Farewell Blues ”, with their echoes of railroad whistles, the carefully arranged interludes and fadeout ending on Schoebel ’ s unusual “ discontented blues ”, bespeak rehearsal and behind-the-scenes work aimed at achieving a polished and varied band sound.

The two granite columns at the main entrance, in diameter and high, were said to be the largest polished monolithic shafts in the country.